Someone at an open WiFi ‘hotspot’ could have a field day with this. Of course, anyone with half a brain should know better than do anything sensitive at all in such places. (this probably eliminates 90% of the population)
Virtually all net traffic could be intercepted and human readable.
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“Virtually all net traffic could be intercepted and human readable.”
Nope, just sites running an outdated version of OpenSSL, of which naturally Yahoo is one. It’s just incumbent on web admins to update their libraries and reset user passwords.